Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials

The Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials will be a world-leading centre for advanced materials research and commercialisation.

The institute will allow the UK to grow its world-leading research and innovation base in the advanced materials, science and technology, that underpins all industrial sectors.

Materials research

The Centre will encompass nine key areas of materials research, including graphene. The proposed research areas are grouped into four themes - Energy, Engineering, Functional and Soft Materials; critical areas to underpin the Government's industrial strategy.

Northern powerhouse

The new Institute will have its research centre in Manchester. The Manchester centre will be supported by satellite centres or 'spokes' at the founding partners, comprising the universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London.

The total funding from Government is £235m.

Aims of the Sir Henry Royce Institute of Materials Research and Innovation

Accelerate safely and with confidence the use of advanced materials in existing and emerging industrial sectors within the UK.

Underpin and provide growth to the entire UK manufacturing base and reduce the time to market from invention to application for new materials, with significant knock-on impact for the national economy.

Invent and innovate new materials in various sectors covering fabricating, testing, analysing and demonstration, under different operating environments, and provide the 'missing link' in the development of materials within the UK.

Cover a number of sectors - from soft to hard, to functional materials - allowing translation of ideas across sectors.

Provide an international beacon for UK expertise, and deliver national leadership and critical mass to allow identification of expertise within the UK.

Attract inward national and international investment from industry, academia and government.

Provide the required skills and training, allowing industrialists to work alongside academics to produce the expertise of the future from apprentices to doctorates.

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